In just a week, the president has floated financial reprisals for Mexico, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Colombia. The hostilities could backfire.

Washington led an international campaign for tough economic penalties after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens ...

America has built an unprecedented arsenal of economic security tools that have anchored U.S. foreign policy. Republican and ...

Donald Trump says he doesn’t like economic sanctions. The U.S. president has however hinted he might use that weapon to force ...

The Treasury sanctions are directed at more than a dozen people and companies based in China, India and the United Arab ...

In the past, neither America nor its partners were that serious in either imposing or enforcing sanctions. This time could be ...

Milton Friedman once wrote that economic sanctions are not an effective weapon of political warfare because they are likely to harm the imposer as much as the intended target. The Venezuelan case ...

Ukraine reported that Russian troops were using Chinese munitions and presented proof. When Chinese officials were shown these munitions, their excuse was that Russia must have obtained these ...

Still, Sonin said that economic levers, in and of themselves, cannot force Putin to do anything. "I would say that the most direct impact is still the supply of more powerful weapons to Ukraine.

As anticipated, President Donald Trump has ramped up his maximum pressure sanctions campaign on the Iranian regime. Trump was ...